According to The Daily Mail he sent 200 hundred world leaders a copy of The World Book of Happiness but for some inexplicable reason failed to include me on the list of recipients despite me being the leader of the Blogosphere, er, I am the leader, am I not?
Anyway, I do need cheering up but:
According to the Sunday Times, in a letter to each recipient, Mr Van Rompuy says: 'My request to you as world leaders is to make people’s happiness and wellbeing our political priority for 2012.
Well, as you know full well, dear reader, your well-being and happiness is foremost in my thoughts, er, when I remember to think about it, that is. But jolly old 'Rumpey-Pumpuy' continues:
'Positive thinking is no longer for drifters, dreamers and the perpetually naive.
Ah, good, so that means all those dopey dreams about a single currency fitting 17 different nations is out the Brussels' window, I take it. Now we have to 'accentuate the positive' and all that sort of thing:
'People who think positively see more opportunities, perform better, take more often correct and sound decisions, have more self-confidence, maintain better relations and have more trust placed in them.
Not too sure about that one, 'Rumpers' old thing, I mean, exactly how much trust would you place in that all too self-confident Hungarian dwarf?
'Cynics will dismiss these proposals as naive, but they are not. Positively inclined people see everything in their right proportions.
Cynical! Moi? Not at all, mon cher 'Rumpey-Pumpuy', and I look forward to your next Heads of State meeting in January at which, thanks to your kind gift, the happiness index (beloved of our Dave) will rocket up; well, up, that is, until the time comes to discuss the "right proportions" of the euro! At that point they're all quite likely to start hurling their copies of The Happiness Book at each other!
As says a friend of mine, there is two kinds of people: those who want to be happy and those who know what they want.
Posted by: ortega | Thursday, 22 December 2011 at 13:44
Ah, you don't need a Happiness Book then, Ortega.
Posted by: David Duff | Thursday, 22 December 2011 at 17:24